NEWS & EVENTS

Southern Haunt finalist for the O'Neill

Audrey Residency at New Georges

I've begun a year-long Audrey Residency at New Georges theater company, to write and develop my newest play, Mary Shelley and the Creature.

Paul's Case opera released on CD

Available from National Sawdust Tracks, featuring the cast of the original production at UrbanArias and PROTOTYPE Festival. In his liner notes introduction, The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross writes: “The ending is as quietly harrowing as anything in recent American opera.” Order your copy or check out a preview track here.

Working in Theatre: Chamber Opera

This documentary series, produced by the American Theatre Wing, features The Echo Drift and clips of me talking about writing for opera, in its December 2018 episode. Check it out here!

The Kilroys List: 97 Monologues & Scenes by Female Playwrights

This collection, featuring monologues from See Bat Fly and Romeo & Naomi Ramirez, has been published in a beautiful edition by TCG Books.

New York State Writers Institute

My play Southern Haunt will be featured this spring as part of the Authors Theatre series at the NY State Writers Institute, with a terrific cast. More info here.

SheWrites: Romeo & Naomi Ramirez

Romeo & Naomi Ramirez will be workshopped as part of the SheWrites International Playwriting Festival, at Synchronicity Theatre, February 2018.

Opera premiere in PROTOTYPE

The Echo Drift, the opera by composer Mikael Karlsson that I co-authored the libretto for, has its premiere in PROTOTYPE festival 2018 in NYC.

Southern Haunt in Atlanta

My newest work Southern Haunt, a spooky-sexy Southern gothic play set in Savannah, appears in December as part of the Threshold New Play Festival at Actor's Express in Atlanta.

Jason and the Argonauts

An opera for young audiences, created with composer Gregory Spears, for Chicago Lyric Opera's Lyric Unlimited. The piece was performed this fall in neighborhoods across Chicago, for over 20,000 young people. These are some of our amazing audience members!

National Playwrights Conference

This summer I'll be at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center with my play Small Town Values. Hope you can make it to one of the readings in mid-July!

AMERICAN THEATRE magazine

Small Town Values at PlayLabs

My new play Small Town Values is part of the PlayLabs festival at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis. Here's mini-interview about the play with the folks at the PW Center.

Residency at Yaddo

This July, I'll be in residence at Yaddo in beautiful Saratoga Springs, NY, working on the first draft of a new play entitled Jack London was an Oyster Pirate.

The Kilroys List 2015

Romeo & Naomi Ramirez made The Kilroy's List of the top 7% most recommended plays by female writers for 2015. Read more info on the Kilroys and their list of excellent plays!

Romeo & Naomi Ramirez...

...at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis. What
an amazing place to work on a play, and a terrific theater town too. Check out my interview about Romeo & Naomi Ramirezhere, and the cute photo to the right of the very talented actors Ramon Torres and Cristina Castro (as Romeo and Anna/Naomi).

Collaboration with PURE Theatre

Check out this nice article about my play development work with PURE Theatre, a terrific company in Charleston, SC.

Core Writer at the Playwrights' Center

I've been named a Core Writer of the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, for a three-year fellowship.

This spring I'll workshop my new play Romeo & Naomi Ramirez as part of their Ruth Easton New Play Series. Join us for the reading April 6 & 7!

See Bat Fly on the The List & On Stage

The Kilroys have published their first annual edition of The List, and my play See Bat Fly has been named one of the top 46 most recommended plays by women. More info here.

TheNew Yorker's Top Ten

Paul's Case in New York & Pittsburgh

The chamber opera Paul's Case, which I co-authored the libretto for (with composer Gregory Spears), is appearing at the PROTOTYPE Festival at HERE Arts Center in New York in January 2014 (reviewed in the NY Times) and at Pittsburgh Opera in February.

Ovation AwardNomination

I've just been nominated for an LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Playwriting, for my play Creation, which premiered last fall, directed by Michael Michetti, in a wonderful production at The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasedena (see photo). The Ovation Awards are LA-area's only peer-judged theater awards, with over 400 productions judged by a pool of 250 voters.

Residency in Italy

This spring I was an Afilliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, on a fellowship from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). I was researching a play that's a backstage drama for a Commedia dell'arte troupe, to be developed with my students at SCAD, and produced in the fall. Here's a photo from the lovely courtyard of the American Academy.